Unlike Plato in the Republic, Phaedrus, and elsewhere, Aristotle does not write a competing counterdrama to the drama of tragedy, a mimetic metacritique of mimesis, but simply gives us a lecture, or quite possibly a series of lectures.

与《理想国》、《斐德罗》和其他地方的柏拉图不同，亚里士多德并没有写一部与悲剧戏剧相竞争的反剧，一部对模仿的模仿元批判，而只是给我们一个讲座， 或者很可能是一系列讲座。